 | SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - Страниц: 588
...rtluilancc, to confefj, that the palloral manners, which have been adorned with the fairtlt attribuées of peace and innocence, are much better adapted to...the fierce and cruel habits of a military life. To illuitrate this obfervatiun, I (hall now proceed to confider a nation of ihepherds and of warriors,... | |
 | 1793 - Страниц: 738
...confefs, that the paftonil manners, which have been adorned with the faireft attributes of peace und innocence, are much better adapted to the fierce and cruel habits of a military life. To illultrate this obfervntion, 1 (hall mmproceed to confidcr a nation of ihepherds and of warriors, in... | |
 | 1800 - Страниц: 620
...pleating vifion ; and is compelled, with lome relucían ce, to confefs, that the paftoral manners, which have been adorned with the faireft attributes of peace and innocence, are much better adnpted to the fierce and cruel habits of a military life. To illuftrate this obfervari' n, I ihall... | |
 | James Mill - 1817 - Страниц: 700
...with some reluctance, to confess, that the pastoral manners, which have been adorned with the fairest attributes of peace and innocence, are much better...to the fierce and cruel habits of a military life." Gibbon, Decline and Fall, ch. xxvi. p. 342. || In the same discourse Sir William further remarks ;... | |
 | Robert Robinson - 1817 - Страниц: 590
...Buninf antes — - Chore f Monac/ii .... Hebraorvm- ••• Cantttt •--- Instrumenta mutict, (Sfc. and innocence, are much better adapted to the fierce and cruel habits of a military life (3)." This idea is countenanced by the sacred historian, who says, Nimrod began to be a mighty one... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1821 - Страниц: 356
...of others. The observation, that the pastoral manners which have been " adorned with the " fairest attributes of peace and innocence, " are much better...to the fierce and " cruel habits of a military life *," is con* Gibbon, cluip. xxvi. of the Decline and Full. firmed by the manners of the shepherds of... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 732
...discrimination, remarks, that the manners of pastoral life, " which have been adorned with the fairest attributes of peace and innocence, are " much better...to the fierce and cruel habits of a military life." This observation, which the ingenious author of " The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" applied... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1830 - Страниц: 636
...history, we are compelled to confess, that the pastoral manners, which poets have adorned with the fairest attributes of peace and innocence, are much better...to the fierce and cruel habits of a military life." BOOK VI. Sine Coll. et anno. 1. Who was the first Greek Prose Writer? Who the first Historian? When... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - Страниц: 480
...settlements will * Gibbon has remarked, that the pastoral manners which have been ' adorned with the fairest attributes of peace and innocence, are much better adapted to the fierce and cruel habits of military life.' c. 26. t The exception is, when boundless plains, under a temperate climate, admit... | |
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... the pastoral manners, which have been adorned with the fairest attributes of peace and innocence, are much better adapted to the fierce and cruel habits of a military life. 
